PhoroLinux

OK. Version 2.6 of GIMP has been released. So here is how to install it on Linux.

openSUSE 11.0

If you want to install GIMP 2.6 on openSUSE 11.0, click the link below:

GIMP 2.6 for openSUSE 11.0

Ubuntu

If you want to install GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, you can add this line to sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu intrepid main

Then run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp


If you want to install GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, you can download all .deb packages of GIMP from getdeb website. Then install in the following order:

sudo dpkg -i libbabl*.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgegl*.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgimp*.deb
sudo dpkg -i gimp*.deb
sudo dpkg -i gimp-python*.deb
sudo dpkg -i gimp-data*.deb


Arch Linux

If you want to install GIMP 2.6 on Arch Linux, you can run this command:

pacman -S gimp-devel

[via Decriptor’s Blog & Ubuntu Forums]